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  2. Tetrachromacy - Wikipedia

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    Tetrachromacy is demonstrated among several species of birds, [2] fishes, [3] and reptiles. [3] The common ancestor of all vertebrates was a tetrachromat, but a common ancestor of mammals lost two of its four kinds of cone cell, evolving dichromacy, a loss ascribed to the conjectured nocturnal bottleneck. Some primates then later evolved a ...

  3. Color vision test - Wikipedia

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    An Ishihara test image as seen by subjects with normal color vision and by those with a variety of color deficiencies. A pseudoisochromatic plate (from Greek pseudo, meaning "false", iso, meaning "same" and chromo, meaning "color"), often abbreviated as PIP, is a style of standard exemplified by the Ishihara test, generally used for screening of color vision defects.

  4. Evolution of color vision in primates - Wikipedia

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    A remote vertebrate ancestor of primates possessed tetrachromacy, [1] but nocturnal, warm-blooded, mammalian ancestors lost two of four cones in the retina at the time of dinosaurs. Most teleost fish , reptiles and birds are therefore tetrachromatic while most mammals are strictly dichromats , the exceptions being some primates and marsupials ...

  5. Talk:Tetrachromacy - Wikipedia

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    The question I find fascinating, that I have seen no research on, is this: since RGB monitors present information approximately mapped to a human's three color receptors, how does a tetrachromat's perception of RGB colors vary from a trichromat's. For example, if a screen is displaying a yellow image, there are red and green pixels lit.

  6. Color - Wikipedia

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    As many as half of all human females have 4 distinct cone classes, which could enable tetrachromacy. [25] However, a distinction must be made between retinal (or weak ) tetrachromats , which express four cone classes in the retina, and functional (or strong ) tetrachromats , which are able to make the enhanced color discriminations expected of ...

  7. Gene therapy for color blindness - Wikipedia

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    Electroretinograms demonstrated that the cones were expressing the new opsin and after 20 weeks a pseudoisochromatic color vision test demonstrated that the treated monkeys had indeed developed functional trichromatic vision. [6] Gene therapy was to restore some of the sight of mice with achromatopsia. The results were positive for 80% of the ...

  8. Farnsworth Lantern Test - Wikipedia

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    The Farnsworth Lantern Test, or FALANT, is a color vision test originally developed specifically to screen sailors for tasks requiring color vision, such as identifying signal lights at night. It screens for red-green deficiencies, but not the much rarer blue color deficiency.

  9. OPN1MW2 - Wikipedia

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    OPN1MW2 is a duplication of the OPN1MW gene, which encodes the medium wavelength sensitive (MWS) photopsin.The gene duplication is present in about 50% of X-chromosomes, so is present in 50% of males and at least once 75% of females.